Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Review
This is why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an embarrassment to music, to Clevelanders, to landmarks, to fans of music, and to the United States: real dispalys currently being exhibited:
- 'The young gods' (or dudes, I can't remember): includes Psychotica, L7 and M.Manson, all unproven artists. Pay-offs are going on!
- Handwritten lyrics of a Paul Simon song - on a NEW legal pad with no mistakes - it was obviously written a week before the opening.
- 'Grunge Display Manequin' - the curators slapped different grungers pieces of clothing on the same manequin - like someone's boots, some other persons' flannel, etc. Are you fucking kidding.
- 'Video Killed the Radio Star' -- a video display, about 20 monitors with quick exceprts of popular MTV videos. Key words such as 'androgeny' are flashed and then a picture of Boy George appears. I watched the people watching this video, more than I did the video, and yes, video killed the radio star.
- None of the manequins even resembled the artsist - in actual form. For example, there was a Madonna display and ALL the manequins physically looked different.
- A Melvins guitar. The melvins are important to some people, yes, but others guitars were mysteriously missing: Clapton, Hendrix, Page, BB King, etc.
- Most of the movies were things I have already seen on MTV - specifically the rap documentary.
- There was not one single exceptional artifact that I felt was noteworthy. There was huge displays for Rolling Stone Magazine (a huge museum contributor) and Alternative Press(home offices are in Cleveland).
- A large portion of the displays were blown up pictures you've seen in magazines.
- The wigs on the manequins were laughable.
- They lay-out of the museum was in dis-array. No floor plans were available.
